Poet Annie Finch to Present Earth Healing Ritual at Conference

Ritual on Climate Change and Earth Abuse

This interactive ritual, suitable for either a workshop or presentation, will create a sacred space in which participants may access, express, and transform our fear, rage, grief, and mourning over the patriarchal abuse of Mother Earth. We will create a circle of Goddesses of Earth — Asase Yaa, Corn Maiden, Danu, Demeter, Gaia, Mago, Ostara, and Pacha Mama — to witness and contain catharsis and transformation. we will focus on accessing and expressing our suppressed emotions about earth abuse.  In the final part of the ritual, we will raise further energy and the group will create and participate in a performative catharsis of chanting and circling.  The ritual will close with an opportunity for participants to write and/or chant an intention and resolution for collective and/or individual action to move forward in support of Earth and her healing.

Annie Finch is a poet, writer, speaker, performer, and witch. Her eighteen books include Eve, Calendars, A Poet’s Craft, Spells, and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams, which received ASWM’s 2010 Sarasvati Award. A graduate of Yale with a Stanford Ph.D, Annie currently teaches for the low-residency M.F.A. program in creative writing at St. Francis College and offers inspirational talks, rituals, and workshops on language and spirit.